Linguistic Musings
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This is just data I gather for fun. Better thought-out discussions on some of these themes and others may be found on the Topics page.
English
- English Syntactic Musings - Interesting syntactic things in English
- English Quotatives - Collection of quotatives in English
- JNW's English - Jonathan North Washington's idiosyncracies in the way he speaks English
- ABraver's English - Jonathan doesn't like the way I speak
- Pronunciations - Dialectical differences in people other than JNW
- Æ - the vowel I call /Æ/
- Proto English Vowels - some comparative data, aiming at reconstructing a proto-Modern-English vowel system
Other
- Faux Genders - The discrepencies between Romance-language cognates' genders
- Kabaks and Kharbuzes - Several words for squashes and pumpkins and melons and watermelons in many of the world's languages are similar. Take a look.
- Turkic words in Yiddish - Beyond kabaks and kavanes
- Random musings about potential relations
- Relations to Turkic Turkic words which are similar to words in other language groups
- Changes to Turkic - Potential sound changes connecting some Turkic words with other languages
- Gender of nouns in Spanish - Rules in Spanish for noun gender
- Exclusive coverage of musings from Kazakhstan
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